Wednesday-Night

See also Canada after 2008 election and Canada’s political showdown and Liberal Party Convention 2009 ; “Being Michael Ignatieff” by Michael Valpy ; Update: Canada at 150
Rare praise from Rex Murphy: The new Michael Ignatieff, fresh off the bus
Ignatieff will be better in the House this Fall for being on this trip. […]

CBC News - Indepth: Canada-U.S. Relations
5 May 2003 … Relations between Canada and the U.S. are decidedly chilly these days. The Iraq war, trade disputes, name-calling, bickering at the border: …

Alberta’s office in Canadian embassy ‘has opened can of worms’
Trouble could arise if province at odds with federal government in White House talks
Kevin O’Shea, head […]

(Sierra Club) Environmental Impacts of Tar Sands Development; (Pembina Institute) Tar Sands Watch; Oil Notes on WednesdayNight.com; (National Geographic March 2009) The Canadian Oil Boom - Scraping bottom; More on oil & tar sands

The tar sands consist of a mixture of silica sand, minerals, clay, water, and most importantly, crude bitumen. The process of converting bitumen […]

The double-header of book launch for Robert Landori’s “Havana Harvest” and the traditional Wednesday Night that followed proved to be a happy marriage of interests and interesting people, with considerable - and entertaining - overlap.
With the usual welcome to “Wednesday Night 1487″, it was noted that 13 weeks remain until the magic #1500, which falls […]

Pot and Politics: Canada and the Marijuana Debate; The top 10 Canadian health news stories of 2009; Swine Flu H1N1
Health Minister accepts ‘prudent’ advice not to fund MS treatment
Vascular procedure to treat multiple sclerosis is invasive and too risky for clinical trials, Leona Aglukkaq says
Health agency dampens MS patients’ hopes by rejecting clinical trials
24 August
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Peter Gzowski: Voice of Canada (video)
For three hours a day, five days a week – for 15 years – millions tuned in to CBC Radio’s Morningside and Peter Gzowski. Despite Gzowski’s dishevelled appearance, this beloved radio host cast his folksy charm across the country. When Gzowski died in 2002, Canadians paid tribute to the broadcaster […]

Munk Debates 2009: Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.
December 2009 Munk Debate on Climate Change “Be it resolved: climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.” George Monbiot and Elizabeth May took the affirmative; Bjørn Lomborg and Lord Nigel Lawson the negative. [Watch the debate]
Lomborg […]

 
Reckless editing
(Ottawa Citizen) Two incidents of Wikipedia vandalism that seem to come from Canadian government computers raise an important question: Just how involved in the nuts and bolts of new media should public servants be?
Neither of the two incidents in question was an official government action. In one case, an article on the Joint Strike […]

Canada 2010: G8 & G20 ; At Issue panel on The National (CBC)
No politics please, we’re nation-building: PM
WHITEHORSE - He stood astride an ice flow, F-18 jets roaring overhead for a perfect photograph, reannounced feel-good government initiatives and gave a rousing speech to party faithful warning of the evils of an opposition coalition.
But Prime Minister […]

…the first principle of Arctic sovereignty is: Use it or lose it
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Resolute Bay, August, 2007

Sergeant Kevin MacAulay/Canwest News Service
Background
CBC archives: Creation of Nunavut
On April 1, 1999, the new territory of Nunavut was born. It meant the Inuit gained self-rule and control over their own institutions.; Canadian Arctic Sovereignty prepared by […]